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| 'For Now' is a 12" x 16" acrylic on canvas board.
For a while now, I've wanted to paint grittier nudes, but the thing that held me back (in my mind) was the thought of my sons walking in and saying, ".....Mom...?" So I decided to run the idea past my 1,000 year old son in a 16 year old costume, and he said, "Mom! You're an ARTIST! Don't paint in fear! Paint whatever's in you to paint!" A big, grateful hug and a couple weeks go by, and I am painting this painting in the back yard and my younger but equally old soul of a 13 year old son comes through the gate, home from school and I can see him looking at it while he's talking to me about his day. I suddenly got self-conscious and said, in a goofy voice, "I dunno why she's naked!" And he shrugged and said, "It's cool. I was just thinking, you should paint some fishnets on her." Bahaha I love my kids!! |
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1. I wasn't setting out to paint a nude. So far, this was just ground and sky. |
2. The black along either
side was the beginning of bushes along a road. |
 3. There's a photograph of me as a little girl, I'm holding a little bouquet of dried flowers and I'm so shy, this (above) was how I held my body in the picture. I was remembering this feeling as I painted. The sun you see on the picture is the real thing, I'm sitting under the tree, my favorite quiet painting spot. |
 4. Well a little nostalgia was nice but as you can see, short lived! I turned the painting upside down to see if I could 'see' it differently, and ultimately couldn't, so I went over it in black. (No I'm not in treatment. Bahahaha) |
 5. Painting it black is when the freedom set in, and out popped a nude. |
 6. From the black evolved a room with a window. I've defined a face and smoothed her body and changed the size of her boobs. Oh the powah!! :) |
 7. A story started happening from looking at her and I painted a neon "Girls" sign out the window. I decided she was on her break. |
 8. You might notice in other State of the Art pages that whenever a hairdo stumps me, I am all over the place with it, as in the case above, giving her long hair. But nah, that wasn't it either. I've added building shadows outside. You might notice she's got "tidy" pubic hair but... |
 9. ... I don't want her to look "current" so I fluffed her out somewhat, figuring if this was more retro, she wouldn't be all waxed! I'm figuring if you're with me so far on this sprawled out nude, you can handle this information about her bush. hahaha |
 10. The buildings outside get some personality and I continue to work on her face and hair. |
 11. I make the walls more burgundy to add a more retro feel, and I paint "sheers" on the window. I paint a headboard behind her, tweak the painting above her, and darken up the bedspread, adding folds and shading. I paint a warmer fleshtone on her. |
 12. It's been "bugging me" that there was something missing on that wall, so I add a dresser, complete with a mirror and lamp. The lamp is on, so I add more red glow to the wall directly under it, and to her upper body. |
13. I detail the dresser, adding a purse, which changes the story of her being on her break. It's what makes me call the painting 'For Now'. Click on her :) |
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